Understanding Society

The revolutions of 1848 have gotten renewed attention in light of this year's "Arab Spring" uprisings. (The amazing photo abov...

The structure of the tax code in France is getting new attention these days. President Sarkozy has made fiscal reform a key issue in the run...

Louis Maurin recently published a valuable book on contemporary French society,  Déchiffrer la société française , which is intended to she...

Histories of France have been written from many points of view.  Emmanuel Todd's The Making of Modern France: Ideology, Politics and Cu...

France is one of the more affluent countries in the OECD, but it continues to contain significant poverty and meaningful inequalities of in...

Is there such a thing as "French philosophy"? Or is philosophy a purely universal discipline, raising the same abstract questions...

Political philosophers ask a small number of core questions: for example, what constitutes the moral basis of political authority?  How sho...

Several posts have focused recently on the meandering pathways through which the social science disciplines have developed in the past cent...

What is the role of the intellectual in France in 2010?  And has that role declined in the past several decades?  Have the media and the in...